The CAFE TA Center
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National TA Center Webinar, May 16
Please join The CAFE TA Center and the other National Consumer and Consumer-Supporter Technical Assistance Centers for a 90 minute webinar on Tuesday, May 16 at 2:00 PM ET. Get to know your SAMHSA-supported National Consumer & Consumer-Supporter TA Centers! What are they? What do they do? What can they do for you? Discover your regional NTAC & meet the peer leaders; Learn of the activities, accomplishments and initiatives and; Find out how your NTAC can support you and your organization to further and strengthen peer work. 90 minute certificate of attendance available! View the official flyer for this event …
News and Notes for April 12, 2017
In recent years, a conversation about the growing professionalization of peer support, what it might look like, and what it could mean, has been ongoing, both within the peer support community, and among other mental health professionals. Providers’ willingness to invest in peer support as an effective service is growing. Peer specialists have a desire to be viewed as credible, valuable members of mental health service delivery teams, while doing meaningful work that matches their training and values. Discussion of the credentialing and professional qualification of certified peer specialists reached a new plateau in March, as Mental Health America finally …
News and Notes for March 7, 2017
We’re pleased to let you know that preparations for the 2017 Alternatives Conference are well underway, with the event scheduled for Friday, August 18 through Monday, August 21, at the Boston Park Plaza in Boston, MA! The SAMHSA-sponsored Alternatives conference is a truly remarkable international event, where mental health consumers/survivors cme together to share knowledge about developing peer-operated services, find empowerment, and celebrate recovery. If you have not been to Alternatives before, we encourage you to attend, and experience the strong sense of community and shared experience that can be found there. And if you have been to Alternatives before, …
About The CAFE TA Center
The CAFÉ TA Center is a program of The Family Café, a cross-disability organization that has been connecting individuals with information, training and resources since 1998. The Center is supported by SAMHSA to operate one of its five national technical assistance centers; providing technical assistance, training, and resources that facilitate the restructuring of the mental health system through effective consumer directed approaches for adults with serious mental illnesses across the country.
We Exist to Help You
The CAFÉ TA Center is committed to providing quality training to consumers and advocates throughout the country. Consumers in the community need the right knowledge and tools to effectively organize, speak for themselves, and thrive in their daily lives. Thanks to the technology available, it has become relatively easy to connect with consumers and advocates and share resources without having to ask people to interrupt their daily routines by traveling to attend training.
Check Our Resource Bank
The CAFÉ TA Center is committed to connecting consumers, advocates and organizations with information and resources that can make a real difference for them, regardless of where they come from. That’s why we have created this section, to house those resources that partners, experts, peers and advocates and developed and chosen to share with others. We truly believe that our advocacy and capacity can be greatly enhanced by working together, not only across states and SAMHSA programs, but also across the entire spectrum of healthcare and human services advocacy.